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THANK YOU!!!
We would like to thank everyone who participated
in the Sinhala & Tamil New Year Programme
on 20 April 2002, to make it a truly enjoyable
evening. The positive feedback we have received
was due in part to all those who helped with the
decorations, food, music, and dance items. We
reiterate our gratitude. On our part, it was a
pleasure to organise, and we look forward to your
participation in future celebrations of this kind.
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SLAG ON THE INTERNET!!!
AS OF 15 JUNE 2002
We are proud to unveil www.slageneva.org
where you can already enjoy the photos of the
New Year Party. An electronic version of this
Newsletter will also be available there, as well
as links to other interesting SL sites. Please
feel free to browse through and send us your comments
and feedback, taking note that it is our first
effort. We hope to shortly add an electronic database
of members, a message board, and other features.
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SRI
LANKAN FLAVOURS
Geneva, 27 May - 15 June 2002
The Chefs of the Jetwing Hotels in Sri Lanka
will make you discover the different flavours
of Sri Lankan cooking at restaurant "La Récolte"
at the Forum Park Hotel (Former Hotel Penta).
Come and savour authentic Sri Lankan dishes: Menu
of the Day at CHF 31.- per person with a Sri Lankan
speciality. Every evening, enjoy your meal in
a pleasant atmosphere with the traditional Sri
Lankan orchestra, Tamalia.!
Reservations : Restaurant "La Récolte"
: 022/710 30 52
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SLAG FUND-RAISING ACTIVITY
FETE DE LA MUSIQUE - 21-23 JUNE 2002
SLAG will be participating in the 11th Fête
de la Musique in Geneva. The SLAG booth will be
located at the Parc des Bastions (the University
grounds) and will be serving Sri Lankan fare from
Friday 21 June evening until Sunday 23 evening.
This year we hope to create a fun, relaxed, and
uniquely "Sri Lankan" atmosphere at
our booth, by having decorations, music, and logistics
permitting, an "arrack bar" and "the
kade" on the side. Naturally to make all
of this possible we will need your assistance,
and thus strongly encourage you to get involved
and volunteer with any aspect you like. We also
urge SLAG members to invite their friends, family,
and colleagues to visit our stand. As the Fête
gives us an excellent opportunity to raise funds
for charities in Sri Lanka, it is imperative that
we have as large and wide participation as possible.
Members who would like to help in the catering,
serving of food and drink and other activities
that we have planned, please contact Ruvan at
022 738-1846 or 078 8524360 or Chinta on 022 341
5358. The Committee is particularly looking for
booth coordinators for specific periods during
the festival.
More importantly, do remember that as with all
our activities, the primary purpose here is for
our community to meet and get to know each other.
The SLAG booth will serve as a focal point for
our members and we look forward to seeing as many
of you as possible…so stop by, eat some curry,
drink some arrack and make a donation to worthy
Sri Lankan charities!
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - VISIT WWW.FETEDELAMUSIQUE.CH
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SWISS-SRI LANKA CRICKET
TOUR 2002
After a successful and popular maiden cricket
tour to Sri Lanka in December 2000, the Sri Lankan
Geneva Cricket Club undertook another tour from
20 April to 3 May 2002. Players from Geneva and
Zurich formed the nucleus of the tour party. With
9 games in the card, the tour took a "professional"
flavour with very few days of leisure time for
the cricketers. Games were played in Colombo (2),
Moratuwa, Matara, Galle (2), Kurunegala and Kandy
(2). The first game - against a NCC XI - was an
easy victory. Unfortunately, due to the high standards
of local cricket in Sri Lanka, it became a Herculean
task to repeat this success against teams from
Moratuwa, Matara and Galle. However, at Asgiriya,
the Swiss team won their second game against a
Kandy XI.
The final match of the tour was for the DINA cup,
organised and sponsored by S.I.M Akram, patron
of DINA enterprises and a SLAG member living in
Geneva. This game was against the Customs Sports
Club and was played at the Khettarama international
stadium. With victory in sight for the Swiss Sri
Lankan XI, the match had to be called off due
to heavy rain. Dugal Jansz of Geneva Sri Lankans
CC and Sanjeevan Theaver from Zurich United CC
shared captaincy duties during the tour.
All matches were played at international venues
in the cities mentioned above. The tour attracted
extensive media coverage, including local TV and
radio stations.
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REPORT: GYPSIES CONCERT
Zurich, 13 April 2002
The leading group in the Sri Lankan pop music
scene - "The Gypsies", led by the dynamic
Sunil Perera, did a hectic forty-one-day tour
in Europe. Sri Lankans domiciled in Switzerland,
Canada, Italy and London invited Sunil and his
band for several concerts in these countries.
In Switzerland, it was Shirani Leemann, President
of the Swiss-Sri Lanka Association, and a great
fan of the "the Gypsies" who helped
in organising the Zurich show where the group
entertained nearly three thousand Sri Lankan and
Swiss music lovers.
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FUTURE EVENTS
· Fête de la Musique - 21 to 23
June 2002
·Annual Picnic/Seven-a-side Cricket Tournament
- 10 August 2002
· Hike (Zurich) - 25 August 2002 (organized
by the Swiss Sri Lanka Association)
· Sri Lanka Dance Theater - 15 September
2002 (to be confirmed)
· Year End Party - 7 December 2002 (Zurich)
· Year End Party - 14 December 2002
· Charity Dinner & Dance - May 2003
(tentative)
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